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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 29
Outside his judicial duties Inglis did much useful work. He was an active member of the board of manufactures, and, besides ren dering important services to higher educa tion in Scotland as permanent Chairman of the university commission appointed in 1858, he was a governor of Fettes College, Edin burgh; was in 1857 chosen lord rector of King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1865 of the university of Glasgow; and as chancellor of the university of Edinburgh, to which, in Opposition to Mr. Gladstone, he was elected in 1869, took a practical Share in the admi nistration of university affairs. His inaugural addresses at Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Edin burgh (1869) were published separately. He was president of the Scottish Text Society, and of his antiquarian tastes he gave incidental evidence in 1877 in a privately printed paper on the name of his parish, Glencorse, which was identical with the name of his own estate. The paper was written in protest against a proposal officially to change the name to Glencross. A valuable and succinct paper on Montrose and the Covenanters of was published in Blackwood's Maga zine' for November 1887. Its chief aim is to vindicate the character of Montrose. Inglis's 'historical Study of Law, an Address to the J uridical Society, ' appeared at Edinburgh in 1863.
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